Actualités Internationales

After more than a month of touring around a hundred localities in the Ivory Coast, Kévin FIENI, president of the PRO-CÔTE D'IVOIRE movement and declared candidate for the 2025 presidential election, held a press conference this Wednesday to take stock of this grassroots campaign and outline the main points of his political project. The proposal for a federal Ivory Coast constitutes the heart of...

Hello everyone, The association is getting back to you this week following the announcement made by the United Kingdom these days of the retrocession of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius, which has been constantly claiming sovereignty over these lands for nearly 60 years (see Mauritius: the United Kingdom returns the Chagos Archipelago, the American base is maintained ). The Chagos Archipe...

Many Syrian Kurds view federalism as the legitimate model best suited to their country's future, although Ankara and Damascus, for their part, have balked at one word in the declaration: federalism. In the modern Middle East, only one federal state (Iraq) has allowed Kurds to exercise their collective rights and freedoms and refrained from violent repression against Kurdish civilians. Unitary s...

Although published in 1934, the work of Goulven Mazéas from Guingamp,   Social-fédéralisme, remains relevant today, particularly for its vision of solving the social problems of his time, which are very similar to those of today, through a single concept: federalism. These reflections invite us to better define rules to prevent colonization, imperialism, and war. Read the rest of the article...

A senior civil servant, Emmanuel Faivre has worked in departmental bodies for over 15 years. Director General of Services for Haute-Saône for around ten years, he has been working alongside Christine Bouquin in Doubs for the past three years. A doctor of geography and regional planning, he advocates for the implementation of federal ideas in order to  Unblock France  , the title given to his la...

If nationalism is the politics of division, war, oppression, and domination, federalism from a feminist perspective challenges oppression in all its forms and provides a viable alternative to exclusionary politics, becoming a politics of hope and unity. Read the rest of the article at the following link: From Nationalism and Patriarchy to Intersectionality and Federalism – Le Taurillon

Unlike Germany or Switzerland, where federalism continues to prove its worth, France has suffered for ages from an excess of centralization that weakens it and often puts it out of the running. The French, as is well known, have the greatest difficulty in doing without the "all-State," but that does not prevent them from often railing against it and sometimes causing it to waver. Through intell...

The debate on the establishment of a federal state in the Democratic Republic of Congo, relaunched by Olivier Kamitatu, former president of the Transitional National Assembly (2003-2006) and current chief of staff of Moïse Katumbi, continues to provoke reactions within the political class. Read the rest of the article at the following link: Proposal for a federal state in the DRC: For the...

Federalism is one of the pillars of the Swiss political system. Switzerland is a quadrilingual country that defines itself as a nation born of political will, as opposed to states characterized by a single culture or ethnicity. Switzerland was born from a web of alliances between cantons, cities, and rural communities. The Latin term "foedus" means "pact, alliance." While conservatives did not ...

At the Tavini Congress, the Tahitian independence party unveiled the broad outlines of its draft constitution for the Federal Republic of Ma'ohi Nui (present-day French Polynesia), once independence from France has been achieved, which, according to the country's president, it hopes will be achieved within 3 to 15 years. Read the rest of the article at the following link: Tavini presents ...